top 50% hacker news stories for 2020-06-27

Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

https://dev.lemmy.ml/post/35293

5 years ago

944 upvotes – 634 comments

Show HN: A Reddit reader that looks like the frontpage of a print newspaper

https://unim.press/#dataisbeautiful

5 years ago

638 upvotes – 122 comments

Palm – The best small phone for minimalists, athletes, and kids

https://palm.com/pages/product

5 years ago

586 upvotes – 356 comments

Xi-Editor Retrospective

https://raphlinus.github.io/xi/2020/06/27/xi-retrospective.html

5 years ago

538 upvotes – 157 comments

How Does Sqlite Work? (2014)

https://jvns.ca/blog/2014/09/27/how-does-sqlite-work-part-1-pages/

5 years ago

480 upvotes – 62 comments

Sensors detect rise in nuclear particles on Baltic Sea

https://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN23X2TN

5 years ago

437 upvotes – 260 comments

Secretive – macOS native app to store SSH keys in the Secure Enclave

https://github.com/maxgoedjen/secretive

5 years ago

417 upvotes – 106 comments

Show HN: Rainbow – an attempt to display colour on a B&W monitor

https://www.anfractuosity.com/projects/rainbow/

5 years ago

389 upvotes – 58 comments

Astronomers detect regular rhythm of radio waves, with origins unknown

http://news.mit.edu/2020/astronomers-rhythm-radio-waves-0617

5 years ago

336 upvotes – 179 comments

Milton Glaser, designer of ‘I ♥ NY’ logo, has died

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/26/obituaries/milton-glaser-dead.html

5 years ago

263 upvotes – 54 comments

Examining ARM vs. x86 Memory Models with Rust

https://www.nickwilcox.com/blog/arm_vs_x86_memory_model/

5 years ago

240 upvotes – 65 comments

24a2: An ultra-minimalist game engine

https://github.com/jamesroutley/24a2

5 years ago

230 upvotes – 40 comments

Stop Firing the Innocent

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firing-innocent/613615/

5 years ago

219 upvotes – 253 comments

Cache Oblivious Algorithms

https://jiahai-feng.github.io/posts/cache-oblivious-algorithms/

5 years ago

218 upvotes – 19 comments

It's time to take alternatives to dark matter seriously

https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-time-to-take-alternatives-to-dark-matter-seriously

5 years ago

216 upvotes – 108 comments

Cryengine Source Code

https://github.com/CRYTEK/CRYENGINE/

5 years ago

212 upvotes – 143 comments

Ask HN: Has anyone fixed their own bruxism?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665164

5 years ago

199 upvotes – 228 comments

FreeDVDBoot – Hacking the Playstation 2 through its DVD player

https://cturt.github.io/freedvdboot.html

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 15 comments

Update on IT Security Incident at UCSF

https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2020/06/417911/update-it-security-incident-ucsf

5 years ago

169 upvotes – 146 comments

DeepMind AI reading list [pdf]

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/research/New_AtHomeWithAI%20resources.pdf

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 24 comments

GNU GCC does not round floating-point divisions to the nearest value

https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/26/gcc-not-nearest/

5 years ago

158 upvotes – 79 comments

How to Learn JavaScript

https://sivers.org/learn-js

5 years ago

157 upvotes – 70 comments

Microfinance Is Mostly a Scam (2015)

https://mathbabe.org/2015/10/13/microfinance-is-mostly-a-scam/

5 years ago

156 upvotes – 107 comments

Tons of microplastic rain onto western US

https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastic-rain-western-us

5 years ago

151 upvotes – 113 comments

Policing the Internet: A Bad Idea in 1996 and Today

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/06/25/policing_the_internet_a_bad_idea_in_1996_--_and_today.html

5 years ago

143 upvotes – 15 comments

Using Zig to provide stack traces on kernel panic on bare metal (2018)

https://andrewkelley.me/post/zig-stack-traces-kernel-panic-bare-bones-os.html

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 10 comments

Seeing Theory (2017)

https://seeing-theory.brown.edu/

5 years ago

141 upvotes – 9 comments

Wirecard Scandal Puts Spotlight on Auditor Ernst and Young

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wirecard-scandal-puts-spotlight-on-auditor-ernst-young-11593262823

5 years ago

139 upvotes – 43 comments

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pre-installed

https://ubuntu.com/blog/dell-xps-13-developer-edition-with-ubuntu-20-04-lts-pre-installed-is-now-available

5 years ago

138 upvotes – 126 comments

Werner Herzog: ‘Film-making is always some sort of risk-taking’

https://www.ft.com/content/9979bfb8-b5fa-11ea-8ecb-0994e384dffe

5 years ago

136 upvotes – 52 comments

Building a high performance JSON parser

https://dave.cheney.net/high-performance-json.html

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 47 comments

Take control over your feeds to regain mindfulness

https://solmaz.io/thoughts/digital-hygiene-feeds/

5 years ago

135 upvotes – 50 comments

Show HN: Global sailing navigation simulator using real weather/ocean data

https://8bitbyte.ca/sailnavsim/

5 years ago

131 upvotes – 47 comments

Commodore SX-64 keyboard restoration

https://retrohax.net/commodore-sx-64-keyboard-restoration/

5 years ago

128 upvotes – 23 comments

Show HN: GIF Directions

https://gif.direct

5 years ago

127 upvotes – 67 comments

The FDA's perpetual process machine

https://paulromer.net/fda_perpetual_process_machine/

5 years ago

125 upvotes – 58 comments

What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic (1991)

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.html

5 years ago

123 upvotes – 85 comments

Wren is a small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language

https://wren.io/

5 years ago

122 upvotes – 54 comments

Die shrink: How Intel scaled down the 8086 processor

http://www.righto.com/2020/06/die-shrink-how-intel-scaled-down-8086.html

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 23 comments

Whistleblower provides blocking orders for over 4000 websites in India

https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/hgnosd/whistleblower_provides_blocking_orders_for_over/

5 years ago

119 upvotes – 26 comments

Personal OKRs for Success

https://mohitkhare.me/blog/personal-okrs/

5 years ago

118 upvotes – 44 comments

Real VT102 Emulation with MAME

https://zork.net/~st/jottings/Real-VT102-emulation-with-MAME.html

5 years ago

117 upvotes – 30 comments

“Loss of smell” Google search now trending in West Virginia, Nebraska, Nevada

https://mobile.twitter.com/teroterotero/status/1276966591972900865?s=09

5 years ago

112 upvotes – 39 comments

Satellites reveal major new gas industry methane leaks

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-methane-satellites-insi-idUSKBN23W3K4

5 years ago

110 upvotes – 29 comments

Not new news, but tbh if you have tiktiok, just get rid of it – videos

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/fxgi06/comment/fmuko1m

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 34 comments

Let's use more of Firefox, only YOU can stop Chrome from becoming the next IE

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23658417

5 years ago

109 upvotes – 64 comments

NeXTSTEP on the HP 712 Part 2: Getting Software

https://blog.pizzabox.computer/posts/hp712-nextstep-part-2/

5 years ago

106 upvotes – 43 comments

Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200625/11063644781/goldman-sachs-created-font-you-are-forbidden-license-to-critique-goldman-sachs-using-it.shtml

5 years ago

103 upvotes – 42 comments

HonKit: A Fork of GitBook

https://github.com/honkit/honkit

5 years ago

100 upvotes – 36 comments

The economics of a VIP party

https://www.1843magazine.com/1843/the-economics-of-fun/the-secret-economics-of-a-vip-party

5 years ago

99 upvotes – 58 comments

Pico-8: Enabling more than 16 colors on the screen

https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=38565

5 years ago

95 upvotes – 15 comments

Patient 91: How Vietnam saved a British pilot and kept a clean Covid-19 sheet

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-53196009

5 years ago

90 upvotes – 52 comments

Dolphins learn from their peers to use empty shells to catch fish

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30756-9

5 years ago

89 upvotes – 8 comments

The Great Pause Was an Economic Revolution

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/06/22/the-great-pause-was-an-economic-revolution%e2%80%a8/

5 years ago

83 upvotes – 121 comments
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